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Award-winning series Revolution examined sweeping changes in New Zealand society, kickstarted by the Labour Government in the 1980s. This second episode argues that in its first term in office, the Labour Government promoted neoliberal reform via illusory ideas of consensus and fairness, while PM David Lange mined goodwill from its anti-nuclear policy. The interviews include key figures in politics, the public service and business. There are recollections of an age of easy lending and yuppie excess, while those in rural areas recall the downside of job losses.

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Revisiting Revolution Marcia Russell 01.10.2009

It is now 13 years since Revolution was made for Television New Zealand and there has been no equivalent documentary of recent political history on our screens since as far as I can ascertain. The ...

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Revolution: an introduction Marcia Russell 01.10.2009

[From the introduction to the book accompanying the TV series, published by Hodder Moa Beckett, 1996]

Revolution is a journalist's assembly of observations about the transformation of New ...

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